Cosmopolitanism and the Gilded Age
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot, 1888
A widely traveled and cosmopolitan American expatriate artist, John Singer Sargent lived and worked in Paris for twelve years before moving permanently to London in 1886. He made notable and extended visits to the United States, and was one of the country’s most popular painters during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot depicts Sargent’s close friend and fellow artist at work in the countryside. Bunker’s portable canvas is positioned low, on the bank of a stream, where Sargent’s younger sister Violet is absorbed in reading. Like other progressive American artists influenced by the French impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926), Sargent and Bunker experimented with painting outdoors, working directly on the canvas to capture transient effects of natural light and color. The dense vegetation of the riverbank proved to be an ideal vehicle for the broken brushwork and dappled light evident here.
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Cosmopolitanism and the Gilded Age
Childe Hassam (1859–1935)
Une Averse—rue Bonaparte, 1887
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916)
Morning at Breakwater, Shinnecock, c. 1897
Edmund C. Tarbell (1862–1938)
In the Orchard, 1891
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)
Summertime, 1894
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Breton Woman with a Basket, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Breton Girl with a Basket, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Girl on the Beach, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Young Boy on the Beach, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
The Zattere: Harmony in Blue and Brown, c. 1879
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
Note in Red: The Siesta, by 1884
Joseph H. Boston (1860–1954)
From Shore to Shore, 1885
George de Forest Brush (1855–1941)
The Weaver, 1889
Theodore Wendel (1859–1932)
Brook, Giverny, 1887
Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861–1948)
On the Veranda, 1887
Charles Courtney Curran (1861–1942)
Lotus Lilies, 1888
Dennis Miller Bunker (1861–1890)
Brittany Town Morning, Larmor, 1884
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot, 1888
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916)
Spring Flowers (Peonies), by 1889
Childe Hassam (1859–1935)
Horse Drawn Cabs at Evening, New York, c. 1890
John Leslie Breck (1860–1899)
Garden at Giverny (In Monet's Garden), c. 1887–91
Guy Rose (1867–1925)
Giverny Hillside, c. 1890–91
Childe Hassam (1859–1935)
Horticulture Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Theodore Robinson (1852–1896)
Blossoms at Giverny, 1891–92
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933)
Self-Portrait, c. 1889–96
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937)
Les Invalides, Paris, 1896
John H. Twachtman (1853–1902)
Winter Landscape, c. 1890–1900
Willard Metcalf (1858–1925)
Havana Harbor, 1902
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)
Portrait of Thomas J. Eagan, 1907
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938)
Portrait of a Lady Holding a Rose, 1912
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939)
Lady in a Garden, c. 1912